'LEGEND' ADDS TO ASSASSINATION PUZZLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600210013-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 30, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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LEGEND: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald. By Ed- notes, and asks. "Why?" With this Epstein begins to uncover
ward Jay Epstein. McGraw-Hill. $12.95. ' _. :.. in a meticulous manner the- legend of Lee Harvey Oswald
ASIDE FROM gardening and cookbooks, the non-fiction': and his connection and non-connections with various in-
tergate, very little has been. revealed. that hasn.'t been told- and "Agency. of Fear, he spent more than two years- in
before by another author-co-conspirator and sales have .got- unflagging research for the Readers eaders Digest in gathering: ma-
ten progressively slower.; On- the other, hand,_ each. new terial and interviewingmore than. 400 persons..--:__..._.:.
publication. on the Kennedy assassination seems- to . add -One_ of, the most disputable interviewees. was- George
another piece to that everlasting: puzzle of what. really.. hap- DeMohrenschildt, who, may have had a decided effect on Os-
pened on Nov.. 22,.1963. ,K .. ,. . Wald. But the world will never know.. After the second day of-
. a scheduled four-day interview. with Epstein-, DeMohrens-
SUCH IS- the case with "LEGEND:' The Secret World of childt committed. suicide. And the,-man-'who- may-have. held.
Lee Harvey Oswald" newest expose: to uncovers more of so- many. answers to the puzzle_ : was:: swept--away by- what
what is publicized as- "astounding information. So fart we: _-F= must have been deep depression, and; guilt. Or.'-was it? Such
have been informed about the two-gun theory, the' Oswald is- the. impression left by the authoi-and.might:.well be asked
field has produced a number of books in two areas which
have become extremely interesting, to the American: public
during the past five or six years - the Watergate affair and.. .
the Kennedy assassination.
The problem has been that with each new.book on Wa.
.,have been informed about the two-gun. theory,. the Oswald
double, the Soviet and Cuban connections' and" theF conspira-
makes this account stand out. is the mystery surrounding the expected, it makes one- wonder, when questions are passed
author as he delved into a- hidden world of information, -fol- off as. speculation or useless- topics, when .the charade will
',by. the. reader, too...
? The reading is fight; fact flledd"and detailed from the-
The first portion of the book introduces a man - called
Nosenko,.who purportedly served in a number of positions in
the KGB and claimed to know specifics about Oswald and
his stay in the Soviet Union as a defector. And yet, with this full knowledge available to both the, ,and FBI, not one
iota was presented to the- Warren Commission,,: the author .
end?
"Legend is' by far' the most shocking and controversial
book yet to come out on. the-Kennedy killing and definitely
worth reading' if you are interested in just how covertly.
some forces. in our government. operate -- no matter how in-
nocent they may. claim to be.
. ESPSTEIN: -WEAVES a tale . equal- to' -any, ' mystery
thriller in style-, a book intrinsically' spiced with information
gathered- from 10,000, pages of previously classified docu-
ments to give. it just the right flavor. Author of "Inquest"-
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